Raymund P Devas OP MC OBE, 1887-1975

Father Devas lived and worked in the Caribbean for much of his life. He died on 2nd July 1975 aged 88 years and is buried in Barbados. A well known and revered, sometimes feared, figure in Grenada over many years, he wrote a number of books including:

Up hill and down dale in Grenada (1926)

Conception Island- the history of the Catholic church in Grenada (1932)

The Caribs ( a pamphlet, 1940)

Visitors’ book of birds, Trinidad and Tobago (1950)

Births of British Honduras [modern Belize] , (1953)

A history of the island of Grenada 1498-1796, with some notes and comments on Carriacou and events of later years. This was still widely available during the 1980s

Birds of Grenada, St Vincent and the Grenadines, which went in to its third edition in 1970, and was still available in the 1980s